I figure you just use whatever tools you need to to make the final image look the way you want/need it to. If you are aiming for a certain effect that your renderer can't duplicate or can be done better/faster/easier with something else, then you use that something else.

I'm not aware of any single application that can do everything, or that can do everything that it does do better than all the rest. It would be foolish, IMO, to limit yourself to an inadequate tool for a specific purpose when a much better one for the same purpose may available to you.

I gave up some time ago trying to please anybody else's tastes, unless they are the one signing the check.

Friends don't let friends use booleans.